Category: From The Magazine

We are extremely proud to present an exclusive Assumptions interview with none other than Edward Carr, the Deputy Editor responsible for The Economist! After starting in The Economist as a science correspondent in 1987, he covered various topics ranging from electronics to trade to energy to the environment. In 2000, he left for the Financial Times, where…

Strong leaders in established political structures seem to be the obvious, and indeed the only choice for managing society. Leaders are accountable and tasked solely with looking after their community. However, this is not the case everywhere. A self-proclaimed, independent micro- community in a small Copenhagen neighbourhood has shown that a successful society doesn’t need…

Many economics students you would talk to would be familiar with the Cournot and Bertrand models of competition. It’s one of the main things learnt in any industrial module or intermediate microeconomics course, encompassing duopolistic competition with the infamous Nash equilibrium – it’s a key industrial concept that highlights the differences between quantity and price…

With a monthly income exceeding $80 million, the so-called ‘Islamic State’ has prospered so much financially since its inception in 1999 that it can almost be thought of as an economy in its own right. Its effective recruitment techniques, in conjunction with its abilities to maintain vast amounts of funding for its activities, are paramount…

It is hard to decipher exactly the current state of affairs today due to the complexity of it all. Power is up for grabs and there are a lot of players involved — political leaders, international organisations, multinational corporations and even NGOs. We’ve been conditioned to think that nation-states are inherently dedicated to using their…

Leadership is not an uncommon occurrence in the span of social relationships which constitute human life. Think of the patriarch or matriarch of a family; the village elder in preindustrial societies; the President of the United States. Clearly, leadership occurs also in relationships between nation-states, sometimes involving the use of force, as with Russia’s intervention…

This summer, I was given the wonderful opportunity to volunteer for the Warwick Laksh foundation. For those of you that don’t know what the Laksh Foundation does, it is an initiative that began ten years ago. It used to be a small NGO, organic farm and women’s sewing co-operative which began to offer free education to the children…

Some of you might find this hard to believe, but Africa is the world’s richest continent in terms of natural resources, with about 50% of the world’s gold and 3.1% of the world’s oil reserves. Furthermore, some parts are also highly fertile; in Nigeria, a seed will sprout anywhere it’s dropped, irrespective of if care…

Afghanistan is now Trump’s War. The American War on Afghanistan, historically classified a “good war”, as a means of “humanitarian intervention” is now touted a “forgotten war”. The sudden shift from Afghanistan to the launch of Operation Desert Fox in Iraq is seen as a zigzag in American foreign policy. Whatever happened to the United…

By Joseph Cramp Pretty much anyone you’ll meet these days knows about Amazon, the magical online enterprise where one can find almost anything under the sun, and often have it delivered one the same day. Less though, know a lot about Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s CEO. However, anyone interested in leadership should study Bezos closely to…